RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil would begin mass vaccination against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) starting Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), its health ministry announced.

Dulcinea da Silva Lopes (R), a 59-year-old mediacal worker, receives a dose of China's COVID-19 vaccine in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 18, 2021. (Brazilian National News Agency/Handout via Xinhua)

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